{"id":2927,"date":"2021-11-21T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2021-11-21T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T17:49:17","slug":"devotion-deuteronomy-324-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Deuteronomy 32:4 Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"
Matthew 5:48<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.<\/i><\/div>\n
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Deuteronomy 32:4<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are\u00a0just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and just is He.<\/i><\/div>\n

Psalm 18:30<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0As for God, His way is\u00a0blameless; The\u00a0word of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is refined; He is a\u00a0shield to all who take refuge in Him.<\/i><\/p>\n

Isaiah 46:9\u201311<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Remember the\u00a0former things long past, For I am God, and there is\u00a0no other; I am\u00a0God, and there is\u00a0no one like Me, 10\u00a0Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, \u2018My plan will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure\u2019; 11\u00a0Calling a\u00a0bird of prey from the\u00a0east, The man of\u00a0My purpose from a distant country. Truly I have\u00a0spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned\u00a0it, I will certainly do it.<\/i><\/p>\n

Is God perfect?\u00a0\u00a0Should we believe that? We all either believe that or we don\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0Well we either believe that scripture is the inerrant Word of God or not.\u00a0\u00a0We either believe that God has given His Word to us or not.\u00a0\u00a0Now we know that there are many \u201cnon-believers and scholars\u201d who believe that the scripture is not inerrant.\u00a0\u00a0I won\u2019t get deep into that at this time.\u00a0\u00a0But I will say that my experience is that those who think the Bible is a gift from God and so is inerrant live with more faith, joy and love than those who don\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0My question is if one does not believe that all the Bible is entirely the inspired word of God, then how on earth does one believe in any of it.\u00a0\u00a0If some parts of the Bible are wrong, then which are and which are not and who gets to make that determination? The whole thing quickly crumbles unless one simply believes all of it and in Him.<\/p>\n

The first church I attended was a smaller church, but packed with Bible believing, Christ following believers who emanated the love of God.\u00a0\u00a0At that church I remember them handing out a bumper sticker that read \u201cGod said it, I believe it, and that settles it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I put the sticker on the back window of my old truck where it remains today.\u00a0\u00a0That declaration remains in me.\u00a0\u00a0If it\u2019s in the Bible, then I believe it beyond anything I can think or imagine it.\u00a0\u00a0Yes, it\u2019s simple, but the Lord God has purposely made it simple for us.\u00a0\u00a0Not easy, but simple.\u00a0\u00a0(See\u00a0Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/i>\u201d)\u00a0\u00a0Family and Friends, simply believe.\u00a0\u00a0Doing that we will simply live in His joy.<\/p>\n

The scriptures declare that God is perfect in every way.\u00a0\u00a0(Deuteronomy 32:4<\/b>) If something is perfect it has no flaws and is complete and lacks nothing.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore something perfect is only perfect only as long as it remains unchanged.\u00a0\u00a0A completely white page can have no color added to it.\u00a0\u00a0If a single drop of blue is added, it is no longer a perfectly white page.\u00a0\u00a0It is completely changed.\u00a0\u00a0Perfect cannot have anything added or taken away from it or it will be changed from perfect.\u00a0\u00a0Perfect cannot change.\u00a0\u00a0It cannot become more perfect or a little less perfect and remain perfect or it never was perfect.\u00a0\u00a0But something that is perfect cannot, in truth, have anything taken from it because it is perfect and nothing can remove any part of it.\u00a0\u00a0Something perfect must be wholly able to protect itself and keep its perfection or it would not be perfect.\u00a0\u00a0If something is actually perfect then it always will be because inherent in perfection is unchanging immortality.\u00a0\u00a0So of course God is perfect, He can be nothing else.\u00a0\u00a0If God is not perfect then He is not God, but He is perfect and is the only true God.<\/p>\n

One cannot believe only what one chooses about God and it actually be God if it differs from the Word of God. If we are able to pick and choose who God is then ipso facto it is not God, instead we would make ourselves out to be a god, but none of us are perfect so we could not be God.\u00a0\u00a0God cannot change and we cannot change Him because He is perfect because He is God. He is who and what He is and always has been, in entirety and that into an eternity beyond the vanishing point in the past.<\/p>\n

Since God is perfect, He can reveal to us perfectly and simply who He is and what He has required of us.\u00a0\u00a0He can make what is infinitely complex into something that we can simply understand.\u00a0\u00a0He is God who created all of us and who sent His Son to save all of us who have been stained by the sin of the ancestor of all of us. Because of that stain only God could save us and so He sent His Son, He sent Himself, to be everything we need to be reunited with God, for Him to be everything we need to know about God.\u00a0\u00a0For all who want to know about God needs only to heed the words of Jesus and live with Him every day.\u00a0\u00a0Live with Jesus and live with God.\u00a0\u00a0Know Jesus and know God.\u00a0\u00a0Know God and know perfection.\u00a0\u00a0Know perfection from God and thereby increasingly know God.\u00a0\u00a0We never know everything about God but we can ever learn about Him. He simply will teach us.\u00a0\u00a0(John 14:26<\/b>) God\u2019s plan to return us all to Him through Jesus is perfect.\u00a0\u00a0Of course. Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/i><\/p>\n

Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew 5:48\u00a0\u2013\u00a0You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. \u00a0 Deuteronomy 32:4\u00a0–\u00a0The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are\u00a0just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and just is He. Psalm 18:30\u00a0–\u00a0As for God, His way is\u00a0blameless; The\u00a0word of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is refined; He is a\u00a0shield to all who take…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1872,103,100,101,94,1874,17],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-deuteronomy","tag-isaiah","tag-john","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}